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Star Wars’ today: What would Reagan do?

Star Wars’ today: What would Reagan do?

President Reagan stunned fellow citizens and the world 30 years ago this month with a dramatic announcement that the United States would develop and deploy a system capable of intercepting and destroying strategic ballistic missiles. –...

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Recently Released Letters Between Reagan and Gorbachev Shed Light on the End of the Cold War

Recently Released Letters Between Reagan and Gorbachev Shed Light on the End of the Cold War

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, went to sleep on the night of March 10, 1985 unaware that relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were about to take a dramatic turn for the better. In Moscow, Konstantin...

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To Cut Wasteful Spending, Start With Nuclear Weapons<p style='font size:14px'>By Robert Klass</p>

To Cut Wasteful Spending, Start With Nuclear Weapons

By Robert Klass

The first “fiscal cliff” was temporarily averted through a last-minute congressional deal. The next “fiscal cliff”, the automatic budget cuts, known as sequestration, is scheduled to arrive March first. Between now and...

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Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

In Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow explores the depth and sophistication of President Ronald Reagan’s commitment to ridding humankind permanently of the threat of nuclear war. Lettow’s narrative spans...

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Take Action U.S. Senate Ratification of the Comprehensive Test BanTreaty (CTBT)   CTBT Background The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a worldwide ban on all nuclear test explosions, including underground testing. To monitor...

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U.S. Nuclear Warheads Set to Get a Facelift

U.S. Nuclear Warheads Set to Get a Facelift

When he took office in 2009, US President Barack Obama bolstered efforts to secure nuclear materials around the globe. That spring, speaking...

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More South Koreans support developing nuclear weapons

More South Koreans support developing nuclear weapons

Perhaps it is merely basic human desire to keep up with the neighbors, but an increasing number of South Koreans are saying that they want nuclear...

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Missile defense turns 30<p style='font size:14px'>By C. Dean McGrath Jr</p>

Missile defense turns 30

By C. Dean McGrath Jr

North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile, and the Defense Department believes that the nation may soon be capable of building a...

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A REAGAN VISION OP-ED

Does the Shining City on a Hill have Nukes?

By Nathan Pyles

Editor, The Reagan Vision

Ronald Reagan began his presidency with one of his favorite phrases; invoking his vision of America as “the shining city on a hill.” On the eve of his election in 1980 he closed his campaign victory speech with, “And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation … that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.”

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10 Reasons Why a Nuclear Weapons-Free World is Now Possible
Reason 1: Introduction

Reason 1: Introduction

This ten part series, Our Nuclear-Free Opportunity, will explore the top 10 reasons why a world free of nuclear weapons is not only achievable – it may now only be a decade or so away. Thanks in no small ...

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Reason 2:  Interdependence of Global Economies and Financial Systems

Reason 2: Interdependence of Global Economies and Financial Systems

Several years ago I was in Shanghai during China’s National Day. Most of the central city was closed to traffic because of expectations for huge crowds gathering in the Bund - the old colonial district - along the arcing ...

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Reason 3: Free Global Communications and Social Networking

Reason 3: Free Global Communications and Social Networking

Free instant global communication is more than just a convenience or a cost savings. It is a sledgehammer to our cultural and national boundaries. Our lives are already laced with virtual artifacts from this splintering blow.

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Reason 4: Man’s moral evolution-two steps forward, one step back

Reason 4: Man's moral evolution-two steps forward, one step back

In the introduction to her most recent book, Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman paraphrases Immanuel Kant – “Truth tells us how the world is; Morality tells us how the world ought to be.” It is the ability of men to ...

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Reason 5: Poor ROI from Nuclear Weapons Spending

Reason 5: Poor ROI from Nuclear Weapons Spending

The world is not, never has been, and never will be - in a static state. The North Korea Memorial Day nuclear explosion is further evidence. Since the global political landscape continuously shifts, nuclear policies must also adapt to ...

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Reason 6: The Fallacy of Deterrence in a Proliferated World

Reason 6: The Fallacy of Deterrence in a Proliferated World

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer understands the limitations of a nuclear deterrence policy in a highly proliferated world. In a 2002 Weekly Standard article entitled The Obsolescence of Deterrence, he wrote

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Reason 7: Building off of Past Arms Control Successes

Reason 7: Building off of Past Arms Control Successes

There is no shortage of skeptics who question if nuclear weapons can ever be fully eliminated. Since nuclear weapon technology has already been invented, they will say, ‘the nuclear genie cannot be put back in its bottle.’ Because ...

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Reason 8: Thank You Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

Reason 8: Thank You Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

President Barack Obama’s April speech in Prague where he proposed eliminating nuclear weapons would not have been possible was it not for the leadership shown by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev two decades ago.

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Reason 9: Simultaneous Alignment of All the Stakeholders

Reason 9: Simultaneous Alignment of All the Stakeholders

It is said that timing is everything. Throughout the tense days of the Reykjavik Summit in October of 1986 if President Reagan’s and Secretary General Gorbachev’s staffs had been surveyed, we would have discovered a strange undercurrent. Few, some historians ...

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